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Auction: 16019 - The Academic Collection of Lord Stewartby: English Coins part 1, Anglo-Saxon and Norman Coins
Lot: 85

Mercia, Offa (757-96), light coinage, c.780-92, portrait types, Penny, 1.17g., East Anglia, ?Ipswich, +OFFA+REX+, around cross potent on steps within beaded inner circle, rev. OE/ĐE/LR/ED in angles of boss tipped lozenge, within which a boss between four pellets cruciform (Chick 177a - this coin; N.-; S.906), minor edge loss at 9 to 11 o’clock, some porosity, very fine, very rare

PROVENANCE
SNC, February 1998, 418
BNJ Coin Register 1991, 256
Found near Pitt, Hants,1991

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Estimate
£1,200 to £1,500